FWTS test failures with Dell Precision 3540

[Paul Menzel]

The Dell Precision 3540 is offered with Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Testing the current firmware with FWTS [1], some tests fail unfortunately. The results file is attached.

It’d be great if you talked to Dell to fix these issues, and that FWTS is run during bring-up of these systems.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite

[Paul Menzel (paulmenzel)]

Here is the summary:

```
Test |Pass |Fail |Abort|Warn |Skip |Info |
---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
acpi_ac | 3| | | | 13| |
acpi_als | | | | | 17| |
acpi_battery | 6| | | | 19| |
acpi_ec | 5| | | | 10| |
acpi_lid | 4| | | | 11| |
acpi_pwrb | 2| | | | 11| |
acpi_slpb | 1| | | | 11| |
acpi_time | 11| | | | 11| |
acpi_wpc | | | | | 14| |
acpiinfo | | | | | | 3|
acpitables | 39| 3| | | | |
apicedge | 1| | | | | |
apicinstance | 1| | | | | |
asf | 5| | | | | |
aspm | 5| 2| | 7| | |
aspt | | | | | 1| |
autobrightness | 2| 1| | | | |
bert | | | | | 1| |
bgrt | 1| | | | | |
bios32 | | | | | 1| |
bios_info | | | | | | 1|
bmc_info | | | | | 1| |
boot | | | | | 1| |
checksum | 41| | | | | |
clog | | | | | 1| |
cpep | | | | | 1| |
cpu_info | | | | | 1| |
cpufreq | | | | | 7| |
crs | 1| | | | | |
csm | | | | | | 1|
csrt | | | | | 1| |
cstates | 7| | | | | |
dbg2 | 1| | | | | |
dbgp | 1| | | | | |
dmar | 1| 1| | | | |
dmicheck | 223| 16| | | | |
dppt | | | | | 1| |
drtm | | | | | 1| |
dt_base | | | | | 3| |
dt_sysinfo | | | | | 4| |
ebda | | | | | 1| |
ecdt | | | | | 1| |
einj | | | | | 1| |
erst | | | | | 1| |
facs | 1| | | | | |
fadt | 26| 2| | 3| 2| 1|
fan | 8| | | | | |
fpdt | 1| | | | | |
gtdt | | | | | 1| |
hda_audio | 1| | | | | |
hest | | | | | 1| |
hmat | | | | | 1| |
hpet | 4| | | 1| | |
iort | | | | | 1| |
klog | | | | | | |
lpit | 1| | | | | |
madt | 82| | | | | |
maxfreq | 1| | | | | ...

[Ivan Hu (ivan.hu)]

for the high failures from comment#1
 dmicheck: Out of range value 0xfb0a (range allowed 0x0000..0x8000) while accessing entry 'Temperature Probe (Type 28)' @ 0x000e0b3c, field 'Minimum Value', offset 0x08
 dmicheck: Out of range value 0xfb0a (range allowed 0x0000..0x8000) while accessing entry 'Temperature Probe (Type 28)' @ 0x000e0b5d, field 'Minimum Value', offset 0x08
 dmicheck: Out of range value 0xfb0a (range allowed 0x0000..0x8000) while accessing entry 'Temperature Probe (Type 28)' @ 0x000e0b81, field 'Minimum Value', offset 0x08
 dmicheck: Out of range value 0xfb0a (range allowed 0x0000..0x8000) while accessing entry 'Temperature Probe (Type 28)' @ 0x000e0ba6, field 'Minimum Value', offset 0x08
 method: \_SB_.PCI0.RP05._S0W returned value 4 but range allowed is 0..3 .
 method: \_SB_.PCI0.RP09._S0W returned value 4 but range allowed is 0..3 .
 method: \_SB_.PCI0.I2C0.TPL0._S0W returned value 4 but range allowed is 0..3 .
 method: \_SB_.PCI0.I2C2.TPL1._S0W returned value 4 but range allowed is 0..3 .
 method: \_SB_.PCI0.I2C3.TPL1._S0W returned value 4 but range allowed is 0..3 .

It seems all firmware issues on smbios and Acpi tables,
all are out of range from specification defined.

Maybe you can attach the acpidump log for further investigation,
by #sudo acpidump > acpidump.log

[Paul Menzel (paulmenzel)]

I am sorry for the late reply. Here is the dump.